It's about 86,000 words. (SFX: Rim Shot)
Waking Lazarus is a supernatural suspense novel, in the vein of Dean Koontz. It follows Jude Allman, who has literally died and come back to life three times, becoming something of a cult celebrity in the process. He has a best-selling autobiography. Talk show appearances. Even a TV Movie of the Week. But the bright spotlight of fame has also made him increasingly paranoid--paranoid enough to change his identity and hide in Montana.
Six years after his disappearance, Jude feels his own paranoia deepening as children around him become an abductor’s prey. Yet he soon discovers he has the key to stopping the kidnapper--hidden inside the past he's tried so hard to forget.
Can he unravel the mysteries of his own deaths and find the missing children?
On the deeper, thematic level, Waking Lazarus is about destiny, and the resulting responsibility--or burden--of doing what we’re called to do. That’s part of why the novel is named Waking Lazarus, a Biblically-inspired title from the book of John: “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him.” Jude is like Lazarus on a couple of levels. First, and most obvious, he’s been miraculously returned to life three separate times. Second, I picture him slumbering in secret, waiting to be awakened by his true calling.
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